Chapter 80

  To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.  

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  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.  

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  Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.  

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  O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?  

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  Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.  

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  Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.  

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  Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.  

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  Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.  

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  Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.  

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  The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.  

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  She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.  

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  Why hast thou then broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?  

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  The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.  

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  Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;  

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  And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.  

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  It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.  

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  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.  

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  So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.  

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  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.  

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